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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED
July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...
Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service
June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”
Questions and Answers for the New Customer Care Center in Wichita, KS
The APWU and USPS have agreed to a series of Questions and Answers [PDF] regarding the establishment of a new Customer Care Center in Wichita, KS.
Winterhaven Stand Down
Each year more than 1 million of our nation’s veterans are homeless. This is hardly the thank-you they deserve and hardly the thank-you they have earned. So, this January, the APWU plans to give a hand up to homeless and under served veterans during...
Veterans, Savings, a Contentious Hearing
It’s rarely quiet in the legislative arena, and as past President Moe Biller was fond of saying, “The struggle continues.”
Senate bill 1950, which would have repealed a cut to cost-of-living adjustments for future military retirees, was defeated on...
Retirees Mark a Milestone
The APWU Retirees Department is 20 years old this year! The APWU now has 62 retiree chapters and over 37,000 members working in their communities to support important legislation; educating seniors on issues that will help them have a better quality...
Arbitrator Sustains MS-47 Challenge
In another recent national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the union's challenge to management's revisions to the custodial staffing handbook (MS-47) and ordered the Postal Service to rescind the 2001 MS-47 Handbook, reinstate the...